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I,( COMlPANY A Carpenter Said "I certainly do like to work on a job where the material is furnished by the Augusta Lumber Co." "Everything they furnish is right -never any botch job -carelessly f i nis hed sash, doors, blinds, etc. Things go smoothly - contractors feel good-we don't get called lown, and when the building is done, she looks fine." OThat carpenter was simply experi encing the result of a pe fect organi zation. When you b 'ld, er us make you an estimate on y r requirements. It will save yo Ime, trouble and expense, and yo will be certain of an A No. 1 job. Our specialty Is complete house bills. Call or mail us your specifi cation. "Buy of the Maker" , AUGUSTA LUMBER CO. AUGUSTA. GA. Something Wanted? Yes? We have some more of that Green Coffee, 10 lbs for $1.00. Here jou get the famous Early Red Bliss Triumph and Irish Cobbler Seed Potatoes grown in Aroostook County, Maine. Some good Seed Sweet Potatoes to see. Fine Seed Corn: Cooke's Prolific, Marlboro Prolific, Georgia Six Ears, Virginia White Dent and Yellow Dent Seed Corn. German Millet and Spring Beardless Barley. Wood's Garden Seed-all fresh this season. Sweet Peas and Nasturtium Seed. Get busy, you lazy man-plant That garden for your wife. Bran and Shorts, Cotton Seed Meal and Chicken Feed. HiIounts line of Steel Beam Plows, are the best made-dispute t 10 lbs of GreenCoffee f r1.00. See M6 before you buy. 'Steve Is tired''. Trade at the Big Store. J. H. Sullivan Laurens, S. C. LAND SALE State of South Carolina. County of Laureas. Pursuant to the decree ot the Court et Common Plea0 for the county of La'urens in said State in case of L. F. McSwain vs Mike 11111, I will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder at Aurens Court Hlouse, South Carolina, during legal hours for public sales, onj ealedday in April, 1914, all that lotof Band with three room dwelling house ereon, containing one quarter of an aere, more or less, situate within thme Oorporate limits of the Tow -of Cross Bill, in county and a eaforesaid, boundled on north by la# ~ of the Presbyterian church, oan~ by lot of W. M. Miller, south by lot of 10rnest Noffz and west by lot of L. F. McSwain Terms of sale: cash, purch-aser to pay tor papers. If purchaser does not com ply with terms of sale, land shall be resold on same or on some subsequont salesday at risk of dofautlting pur *haser. C. A. POWIFR, March 17, 1914. Clerk of Court. 34-3t Wh~en yous feel s:.-rg: vous, tiredl, worried or d iondent it Is a aure alga you need MOTT'.. NERVERINE PI(.LS. They renew the norm l vigor and make life worth living. D3e~r and ask tor Mott's Nerverine Pij Pice0 Wit hA MS MFC. CO., i'rep.., Cieveland. Ohie LAUBlPa.s 'aR I CO. Dr. T. L Tlmmerman Dentis 1 People's Ban ts4ullding *Laurens. S.-C. * DICEY LANCISTON. * * Extracts From Early South * * Carolina History. * * (Printed for County Educational * * Department.) * ** ** ** ** * * * * * *0** There was a black-eyed girl baby born on a South Carolina plantation in the year 1760, who was to grow up with far more of guile than the fear of man in her heart, and who was to do deeds of daring during the war for independence that would isend 'her name dlown In ,history tiltag with those of Sumter and Marion, Pickens and Moultrie, and other chivalrous souls of the Southland. The little maid, Dicey Langston, was the daughter of Solomon Langston, an elderly planter, living in the Lautrens district, on the Enoree River, a see tion overrun with British soldiers, ''orie., and outlaws, who trained with tlhe T'loies dutritg the latter (ay, of the levolution, writes 'Mary and liar ry Greens in all exchange. Her m11oth or dlied dluring her childhood, a period of which w e have little regar(I (xceit thfat she grew up . Lih her brothierts. l'arning their hessons and plalyin; her iprt inl their boyish sports. Na turally she lec ame a bold and reck less rider and an1 expert shot along with her more lady-like accompliish mtents, and was a proud, lim perilols, high-spirited young woman, rather he low the inledium. height. but graceful and attractive in face and m anner. Of course, she became an earnest and outspoken patriot, as were her broth ers, though they had relatives in their own neighborhood who were strong sympathizers with the policy of King George. Old Solomon i angston was an ar dent Whig, and though incapacitated by age and infirmities from active par ticipation in the struggle, he was al ways ready with purse and influence to aid the cause of independence. Both the sons were in the field and had been since the breaking out of host il ities, in some capacity or other. In order to save the family from annoy ance, they did not live at home, nor visit the some 6xcept surrepitiously at rare intervals, but were in constant communication with their sister. Royalists Numerous. Living as she did in i community where she was surrounded with Royal ists, some of whom were her own rel atives, the girl found it easy to learn what was going on, the movements and plans of the enemy, and how it was likely to affect their friends,, and she did not hesitate to secure and use this information by conmunicating to her brother, who was encamped with a little band of Whigs along the oi posito shore of the river, some miles away. After a time thore began to arise questionings as to how certain information could have come to the ears of the rebels, and the suspicions of their Tory neighbors were turned toward Solomon Langston and his high spirited and outspoken daughter. Mr. Langston was waited upon by some of these same Tories and told thlat if ther'e was any morec iniformia tion carried lie would be held person ally resp~onsible f'or hits daughter's conduct. Mr. Langston was an 01ld man, andl not only his ownI safety but that of his daughter and his piroperty depended upon02 these samle neighbors, so lie admninhstered a stern rebuke to Miss Dicey and wvarnled her of the dlanger in which they stood. The meekness with which the young wo miani received the admnonitions of her esteemled plarent may be imagined, al so tlle mental reservations with which .he promised to carry 1no mlore news to the Whlig camps. "TIhie Bloody Scouits." For' a time shle obecyedl the coml miandl of lher father, bu11t the pirobabhilI ties are that it was becaulse she 1had( nothing worth telling. A few weeks later, however, it came to her earis ac eidentally that a band of Trory out laws called theo "flloody Scouts," be cause of' their ruthless cruelty iln wvan tonly killig and1( plundering dlefecle l~css fatmilies known to lie sympa)2thtiz era with the patr'iot cause, wvere nlext day to attack Little Eden settlement, near whlere her brother and~ is little biand lay in hidinlg. Silo knew that the bland was especially inicensed at 1her brother and that if capituired he and all his band would be lput to death. Orders or no order's, she determined to warn her brother andl thle people of Little Eden settlement. Yet how, was thle qluestion. The slightest suspicion falling on her' fathler's family wou1ld bring down oni their heads the wrath of the "BIloodiy Scouts" alr'eady look ing for an excuseO to hiarry theo old man and lundler his piropierty. She hiad no one to sendi, no0 0110 whonm site ctoldt trust, een to go with her'. No she must go alone at night and~ on foot if she would avoidl sttspicion. Across ('outry. Thtat was a journ~ey lotng to lie re memnbered. Starting late at night, af tot' the~ family anid ser'vants hand ail gone to bed, she waliked many ttiles th roug ih thle woods,. acrtoss martshes andl creeks, ovet' which there were 1n0 heiidgnaunnI often nno foot logs, nni finally came to the Tygor, a stream where the only chance of crossing lay in wading a ford. It had rained and the stream was swollen. Yet there was no other way than wading through, and she waded. Deeper and leeper the water became and strong er grew the current with each forward step. Near the middle of the stream, in fighting to retain her footing against the current, with the rushing water up to her shoulders, she fell, and, becom Ing bewildered, "tIurned around," as she expressed it in later year, and could not tell, for the life of her, from which bank she had come and toward which bank she wanted to go. For ,onte t ne--how long she never could tell---she plnged and struggled out in the stream, falling and regaining her footing only to fall again, until ilnal ly she dragged herself out Oil Ilie bank and lay, half drowned tind', water-soak ed. until she had recovered. Shy l'utad tlc' i:tl ag:..in, decied that si was oil the right side, and Iftier a shori time she we.. with her brother aind hIs little party. In a few words she told of the com lug attack1 and of the peril of 11he lit tie settlelnellt, and urged that no delay he niide iI sendin ; the warining to iv y yi ett ler. Tihe soldiers hadt just retii rned floma a long and ti resoine ax 'llsioni, aldii were worn ilt. wet and hiing ry. There caine coin1111t1, that t he aen were filit for lack of food. Though tired, wet and shive'ing her self, the girl at once said: ' 1Build me a fire and get me some corn1-meal or flour." The Quarry Fhin, i. it was short work to pull down a few boards from the roof of their hovel and start a thie, and In a few mini utes a hoccake lay baking in the cim hers. This, browned and broken in to pieces, was thrust into the shot pouches of the men so that (hey couhd eat as they ran on their messages of warning. So well dlid young Langston an( his party do their work that when morning came and the "Bloody cohuts" descended upon the settlement at Lit the Eden it was as empty of human occupation as was that other Eden af ter the angel of the Lord had driven out Adam and Eve. And the denui'e Miss Dicey, fresh and dainty, sat with her family at their breakfast and made irreelvant replies to the conversation until they rallied her upon her ab sent-mindedness. And it was many weeks before they knew of that twen ty and more mile tramp through the woods and morasses in the darkness of the night. The failure of the "Bloody Scouts" to find the settlers of Little Elden only added to the enmity of the hand to ward the few patridts in the Laurens district, and though they could not trace the carrying of any warning to the Langston family, the growing hate and suspicion toward the old man marked him for a victim. After a sortie which a party of Whigs of which his son was a member made on the 'Tories it was decided that the old man must die, and the band went to his house to kill him and plunder his be longings. Mr. Langston, too infirm to escape or' e ven attempit to hideC, and too proud to ask for' mercy, faced them boldly and dlenledl that lie was In any way taking lparut in the str'uggle. "You lie, you old rebel !" angr-ily shouted the leader, pointing a pIstol at the old man's breast. The girl spr'ang between her father and the maddened Tor'y. "You get out 'of the way, or l'll put a bullet thr'ough your' hear't," lie sn areldd. "You Coward." "ie's an old man, you eowardu," said the girl, almost besido herself wvith terror, but only clasping her father the closer' and still keeping her self between hIm and his wvould-as siin. Her fearless devotion must have touched another of the "Bloody Scouts", for he lnterefeured and the old nmn was spared. At -another tIme, when coming home fironm a Whig settlement, Mliss l~ungston was met by a company oIf loyalists wvho or'dered her to tell them the news amiong the rebels. "I have seen iio rebels and I know of no news," she said, trying to evadle further -par'ley, as the leader wvas a lawvless chiaraecr who had b1 een a ren egadle firom jus t ice before he won the priotectionl of the British by talking up arms against his neighboirs. "Yes you have, too. Now tell, or i'll shoot you?" at the same time drawing his pistol. "Ill tell you nothing," was her spir ited reply. "Tell, d- you, or' you'll (die ini your "Shoot if you daire, I have nothing to tell." Trho outlaw would have eairried out his threat had not a young miin of the cornmmand struck up thle barrel (of his Ipistol andl the hullet was wristed in the alir. In the altercation that en sued het ween the gueirrillas the girl. who was miounted on a fleet yonnr hiorse, ma do her esca pe. It is told of heir thiat at one II! - her 'hr'othier.' .7amnes Lotng'eti,'." a riflo in hier keeping wIt standing that he would send a man for it who would give a certain counter sign. A company of men camne to the house one day and one of them said that her brother had told him to bring his gun back with them. Miss Dicey went after the gun and then all at once chanced to think that she did not know but they might be Tories. So she refused to give up the gun until they had given her the countersign. "You're too late, Mistress Lang ston," said the leader, a big, hand some1, happy-go-lucky sort of a fellow, "both you and the gun are now in our possession.". "Oh, we are," she :aid, quick as a lash turning the gun point blank at Iis head and cock lug it, "then comlie anti get us." Site was so deeply in earn "st that the you in tian lost no time in giving tle counte'rs!: n. and Ihat very retspect i'ui!y while his colptiuons ltaghed :on;; and lud. 'This wsthe young mhan. it is said, who came back af'tre the war was over and ihen kept on coming tuntil onle dlay hie carried he'r away with him. for better or worse. A Narrow Fseape. On one occnsion Mistress I cjv e im neacr ge~ting! Into trouble fromt trying 1 to carry waler on both shoulders. :\ party of \'hiigs stopped at her father's house for refreshments aod in the conversation said that they V.Cre ont their way to visit a TLorry neiachhor' of the iltistonts and take away his horses. As tile neighbor was, in the Main, a peaceable citizen and a good neiglihio, the girl determti ii.ei to save his herses. She slipped out and. go ing to the neighbor's house, warned him that his horses had been marked for a change of ownership without his leave. What wa:s her consternation to hear, accidently, just before leaving for home, that the neighbor had sent a messenger to a band of Tories which he knew was in the neighborhood, to capture the unsuspecting Whigs. She hurried back in time to warn the Whigs, and so in one day had saved the property of a Tory neighbor and probably the lives of several Whig friends. Dicey Langston was marrie'd short ly after the close of the war to Thom as Springfield, of Greenville, S. C., where she lived until her death, at a very old age, surrounded by a large and prosperous family. She was wont to boast inl her last. days that site had thirty-two sons and grandsons able to vote or to fight. in defence of their liberty. She sleeps in the old grave yard in Greenville and her State is still proud to do her honor. "TIZ" FIXES TIRED, SORE, SWOLLEN FEET Good-bye sore feet, burning feet, swollen feet, sweaty feet, smelling feet, tired feet. Good-bye corns, callouses, bunions and raw spots. No more shoes tight ness, no more limping pith pain ot' drawing up . your face in ago A ny. "TIZ" is imag - .ical, acts right // off. "TVIZ" dy'dwa out all the pison o it s exff'dations w ilch j jttf up) the -fo t.ATse "TiZ" an ~lorget your footmuisery. Alh! how co~ for'table your' feet feel. Get a 25 cent box or "TrIZ" now at atny dIruggist or depar'tment store, Don't suiffer. Hlave good feet, glad feet, feet thtat never swell, never hurt, never get tired, A year's toot comfort guar'anteed or money refund ed. SoldI in Laurens by Laturens Drug Co. SOMIETHIINGi NEW IN ('IltCUSDJOM. C'onmidete Mlenaigerle Never Seen lie. for witht Wild West aexhibition, Somethting absolutely new, some ting never' befor'e carriedi with a wild west showv, is but one of tihe many fea tires of that most notedl of all Amer lean itHmuisement Entterprises, 1 it Car son's Butfl'alo lRanch fig Thr'ee-Rintg Wildi West Circus. We trefer to thte e'xce'llent andi most comtpiete Menager l(' of t rained wilhd atdnmals int existence today. C'arried simplty as an addedl featutre for your Inspection and no extra charge for vlewving same. Dur ing the cour tse of thte lperformtfance an imal acts of all dlesctription are pre sen ted for youri a pproval. This, with the fancy ridIng, roping and oSter traits of explert htoirsemiantship, dis lilayed by the Cowbtoys, Cowgirls, Cossacks an 1( exicant Vautqueiros cont stituttes but por t of the two htoturs of solid amuttsemtentt. A dp/zeni (lownts ar'e cotntinually att jplay 'nd it wvill be a htard maiitteri to> stop) /vatchintg the an tics long e nouigt to/view some of the im portd (tlu~iropaT'i/ a rtists in novelty nets of every deh 'lption. The pet' formtancte enids w't hi thle sitpierb, snce I aculiir, hiistorical fat isy, "Hattie o' Wounded Kniee," in whtich over 1 we hundttred idians. Soidiers. Trapper's ('owboys and Scouits take active Part. Many of the Intdiatns were actutaIlly liresent at this famous br'ttle and it is reprtodtuced( exactly r s they desr'ilh< it. 'Te tvwo tr Pit"atde w'.ll pass on lv iart0 v en-onitis. Onh dl'v, A ' ' To C ('ne Day -e LA .t tops ti ha4 to c Ready for To-morrow 7 Horses digest their feed less thoroughly than other farm an Iimals. In order to insure t horoughi 1 an ing A e e D cc digestion of all the food eaten, and to make your STOCK MU"ICINE with horses readier for next day's work, add to their r s ta iary n d evening feed a teaspoonful of- on feed. It also makes them healthy, thriving and STDI! I ra }ohnsto). Bee Dee MEDI C F ccb R. F: D. No. 1, It will lessen your feed bills. 25c, Soc and $1. per can. It will increase your profits. At your deale'. . \\'\ . \ ;\ ' { 1 ". ." 1 1 1 I l-I THTRAINY D COMES WILL IT flND .2 WTHOU SA DoLLAR~ IN STHE BAK "Some days must be dark and dreary: into each life some rain must fall." Storms often come up sud denly. "Alas, how easily things go wrong." But it is a protection against most ills ,to have plenty of money in the bank. To have ajank account, you ' must START one. WHO ge~s'the money you earn? Put it in our Bank toc/YOU will have it. Make OUR bink YOUR bank. We pay interest in Savings Department ENTERPRISE BANK N. B. DIAL, Pres. G. H. ROPER, Cashier Good Men:-In South Carolina Yes, That Is Just What We Said: WVE want some good men in all sections of South Carolina to get other Good Men to take The Charlotte Observer and The Semi-Weekly Observer. The South Carolina News published every daty in The Observer makes it the ONE paper to watch. Its EXCLUSLVE stories from Columbia make it the real paper for the broad minded fair man, who wants all the real South Carolina news regardless of factions. GOOD MONEY __Can be made by representatives in every,, town and county in South Carolina talsing subs'i-itions for these two papers. You can devote'your spare time to the work and make all t~a'Pocket change you want. If you are interested, don't delay but write to-day for agency terms, and contract. Address The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N. C. THE ONLY THING WE KNOW *,Beyond peradventure or doubt, is that, if there be a Heaven and a Hell, each of us is going to one of them. YO may well reflect that, if, ''n the Hereafter, ii ~we are to have kno le ge of what is hap pening here, it will e Hell for the man who left the wife and kiddies exposed to drudgeryand theorphanasylum. Why Not Reserve a Berth on the Heavenly Limited? YOU can do it by taking a policy in * THE Southeastern Life Irsurance Co. CARLOS R. MOSELEY, General Agent N. BDI Lares, Sout Ca RO Einae